クインシー・ジョーンズのインスタグラム(quincyjones) - 10月22日 01時09分

If Dizzy Gillespie were still here with us, today would’ve marked his 100th birthday...I had loved him ever since I was 12 years old & had first met him in NY through Oscar Pettiford. Dizzy had style, soul, technique, & substance...He truly was everything I wanted to be as a musician, & I’m forever grateful to him for giving me one of my first big breaks…In 1955, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. told Dizzy that, “If you could put together a big band, I’ll have the State Dept. sponsor & send it abroad.” Well, Dizzy accepted & called me up saying, “Young catter, I want you to play trumpet, arrange, & be musical director for that band. Put it together for me.” He believed in me, despite my age (22 going on 23), so I put a band together (some of his cats & some of mine), & we took jazz to places in the world that had never heard it before….He truly taught me so much about how to handle responsibility & gave me the confidence to confront whatever I was presented with. There’s no possible way to fit everything I want to say in this post, but I do want to say...Happy Birthday Dizzy! You’re in my heart always, & not a day passes that I don’t feel you in my soul!
?: Herman Leonard

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